The Hawthorne Treasury: Complete Novels and Selected Tales (Modern Library) (Hardcover)

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne (Author)

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"The cold, bright air of New England seems to blow through his pages."
--Henry James


"He wrote about the isolated individual trying to regain a place in society, and after a hun-dred years the individual is still isolated and our serious novelists are still dealing with loneliness and alienation. He wrote about the inner world, and that is the theme our novels have continued to express, if seldom in Hawthorne's bold symbols or with his sense of artistic rightness."
--Malcolm Cowley -- Review

Review

"The cold, bright air of New England seems to blow through his pages."
--Henry James


"He wrote about the isolated individual trying to regain a place in society, and after a hun-dred years the individual is still isolated and our serious novelists are still dealing with loneliness and alienation. He wrote about the inner world, and that is the theme our novels have continued to express, if seldom in Hawthorne's bold symbols or with his sense of artistic rightness."
--Malcolm Cowley

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 1409 pages
• Publisher: Modern Library; Modern Library Ed edition (March 16, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0679603220
• ISBN-13: 978-0679603221
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,012,531 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An edition worth owning!, November 6, 2008

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It's not easy finding an edition that compiles all of Nathaniel Hawthorne's works, but 'The Hawthorne Treasury" comes pretty close. It has all of Hawthorne's complete novels, i.e. Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter, The House of Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun and 33 stories:

From Twice-Told Tales:
The Gray Champion, The Wedding Knell, The Minister's Black Veil,The Maypole of Merry Mount, The Gentle Boy,Mr Higginbotham's Catastrophe, Wakefield, The Great Carbuncle, David Swan, The Hollow of the Three Hills, Dr Heidegger's Experiment, Legends of the Province House, The Ambitious Guest, Peter Goldthwaite's treasure, The Shaker Bridal, Endicott and the Red Cross.

From Mosses from an Old Manse:
The Birthmark, Young Goodman Brown, Rappaccini's Daughter, Mrs Bullfrog, The Celestial Railroad, The Procession of Life, Feathertop:A Moralized Legend, Egotism or The Bosom Serpent, Drowne's Wooden Image, Roger Malvin's Burial, The Artist of the Beautiful

From The Snow-Image and other Twice-Told Tales:
The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle, The Great Stone Face, Ethan Brand, The Canterbury Pilgrims, The Devil in Manuscript, My Kinsman: Major Molineaux

Nathaniel Hawthorne was a consummate storyteller and his stories abound with a sense of place, atmosphere and social commentary. This is an edition worth owning for those seeking a good representation of his works bound in a single volume [all of his novels are collected here but only 33 of his short stories].

1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent collection, June 2, 1999

By A Customer

An edition to own. Here are the best samples of a great writer, second only to Melville in the American literary pantheon.

2 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent, June 2, 1999

By A Customer

An edition to own of a great writer, second only to Melville in the American literary pantheon.